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Showing posts with label 13th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 13th Amendment. Show all posts
Friday, April 5, 2024

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, April 19, 1866

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The President last evening addressed a large concourse who assembled under a call of soldiers and sailors who desired to serenade and thank ...
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 6, 1865

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Bright and frosty. As I supposed, the peace commissioners have returned from their fruitless errand. President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, it ap...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, January 31, 1865

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I made a short stay at Cabinet to-day. The President was about to admit a delegation from New York to an interview which I did not care to a...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, July 8, 1864

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, at the late session Congress passed a bill to " guarantee cert...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

Abraham Lincoln’s Last Speech, April 11, 1865

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FELLOW-CITIZENS:— We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrende...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

Edward Everett to William Cullen Bryant, January 4, 1865

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boston , January 4th I have this day received your favor of the 2d, with an enclosed printed paper, to which my signature is requested,...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, December 11, 1864

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New York , December 11,1864. . . . War to the knife to slavery. Let us have no “slavery is dead.” It is not dead. Nothing is dead until...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, February 12, 1864

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February, 12, 1864. Yes, my dear Sumner, that vote of which you write me — namely, thirty-one out of thirty-nine for your death-blow to...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, July 24, 1864

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Ashfield, Mass ., 24 July, 1864. . . . This week, let us hope, we shall hear that Sherman is in Atlanta, and that he is breaking up the...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Congressman James M. Ashley to Abraham Lincoln, January 31, 1865

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House Of Representatives , January 31, 1865. Dear Sir: The report is in circulation in the House that Peace Commissioners are on their ...

Abraham Lincoln to Congressman James M. Ashley, January 31, 1865

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So far as I know there are no Peace Commissioners in the city or likely to be in it. A. Lincoln. January 31, 1865. SOURCE: John G....

13th Amendment to the United States Constitution

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AMENDMENT XIII Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865. Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitu...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, March 5, 1861

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Shady Hill , 5 March, 1861. Is it not a great satisfaction to have the dignity and force of the government once more asserted? To feel ...
Sunday, April 27, 2014

John C. Fremont’s Acceptance of the Radical Democratic Party’s Nomination for President of the United States, June 4, 1864

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New York, June 4, 1864. GENTLEMEN: In answer to the letter which I have had the honor to receive from you, on the part of the represent...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Constitutional Amendment

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The Proposed Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, prohibiting Slavery will beautifully harmonize with the great ends it was o...